| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, | 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, |
| 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, | 3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, |
| 4since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; | 4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, |
| 5because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, | 5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; |
| 6which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; | 6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: |
| 7as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, | 7As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; |
| 8who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. | 8Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. |
| 9For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; | 9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; |
| 10that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; | 10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; |
| 11strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; | 11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; |
| 12giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. | 12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: |
| 13He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, | 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: |
| 14in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. | 14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: |
| 15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. | 15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: |
| 16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. | 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: |
| 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. | 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. |
| 18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. | 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. |
| 19For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, | 19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; |
| 20and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. | 20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. |
| 21And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled | 21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled |
| 22in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— | 22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: |
| 23if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. | 23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; |
| 24I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church, | 24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: |
| 25of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, | 25Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; |
| 26the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. | 26Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: |
| 27To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. | 27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: |
| 28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. | 28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: |
| 29To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily. | 29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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